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OSFAC Presentation. Dr. Landing Mane, OSFAC. Fly through to DRC, Kinshasa and OSFAC. Title: Dr. Landing Mane, OSFAC. OSFAC operates out of a head office in Kinshasa and maintains a GIS/Remote Sensing lab at the School of Agronomy at the University of Kinshasa.

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  1. OSFAC Presentation Dr. Landing Mane, OSFAC

  2. Fly through to DRC, Kinshasa and OSFAC Title: Dr. Landing Mane, OSFAC • OSFAC operates out of a head office in Kinshasa and maintains a GIS/Remote Sensing lab at the School of Agronomy at the University of Kinshasa. • OSFAC works in close partnership with local and international NGO’s, academic and research institutions and builds regional capacity through technical training in GIS and RS. As the Central Africa regional GOFC-GOLD (Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics) network, OSFAC works to improve the quality and availability of satellite observations of forest and land cover in the Congo Basin and to produce useful and timely information products for a wide variety of users. It is a legally recognized NGO in the Democratic Republic of Congo that operates with a regional mandate to promote the use of satellite data and products for the management of natural resources and sustainable development. http://osfac.net • OSFAC collaborators • Patrick, Eddy, Andre, Confiance, Florence, etc (last names) -OSFAC • Alice Altstatt, Chris Justice, Matt Hansen, Peter Potapov, Minnie Wong, Janet Nackoney, Giuseppe Molinario, Brian Barker, Diane Davies - University of Maryland • Paya De Marcken,, WWF • John Flynn, USAID

  3. Constraints to establishing operational satellite based forest monitoring and mapping in Central Africa: • Lack of data acquisition due to • Persistent cloud cover • No permanent ground receiving station • Inadequate data acquisition as few projects requested data • Lack of financial resources Establishment of OSFAC at the GOFC-GOLD Regional workshop Libreville, Gabon 2000 • Central Africa contains the second largest are of tropical forest in the worldbut lacks reliable and updated information on the state and changes being made to forest cover. • 3. Prohibitive cost and lack of availability of satellite data • 4. Lack of internet capacity to receive and disseminate satellite data • 5. Lack of personnel trained in satellite data use and applications and lack of institutional training structures • Operational forest monitoring is required for sustainable forest resource management, • biodiversity conservation and carbon monitoring. • Remote sensing is an essential tool for monitoring and mapping these vast and often inaccessible forestsat a national and local scale. • Remote sensing monitoring must be supported with ground based monitoring and in-situ forest inventory data. • The Observatoire Satellital des Forêts d’Afrique Centrale, OSFAC, wasestablished as the Central Africa GOFC-GOLD (Global Ovservation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics) networkat the 2000 Libreville workshop.

  4. OSFAC Background Training OSFAC Implementation Data Dissemination Forest Cover Monitoring

  5. b. a. Establishing Operational Satellite Forest Cover Monitoring through CARPE c.. d. Challenges: An Operational Monitoring System …. Must provide products that are comparable across the Congo Basin and which can be applied at a range of scales and for a variety of purposes. Should provide products that are easy to use and interpret Requires a method that produces consistent results through time and that generates monitoring products at useful intervals. Requires a reliable, affordable satellite data stream and low data processing costs Must accommodate the intensive data needs over Central Africa to overcome persistent cloud cover Republic of Congo Forest Cover and Forest Loss 2000 -2010 Applications Land Use Planning Habitat Mapping REDD – Activity Data Achievements: Development of an automated forest monitoring and mapping methodology Synoptic regional forest cover and change mapping that is consistent and repeatable Products and maps that are immediately publicly available. Incorporates freely available MODIS and Landsat data - both long standing, continuous US Earth Observation missions Fully exploits the 2008 Landsat Data Distribution Policy by exhaustively mining the Landsat data archive to capture the best cloud free observations in any scene or partial scene a. Cloud cover and anisotropy are a major issue b. A composite made of hundreds of images, and atmospheric and anisotropy correction give us usable data c. The map on the left shows data density (number of overlapping images) for the ROC – The more, the better. d. UMD/SDSU/OSFAC has recently produced the ROC forest cover loss map 2000-2010

  6. The flow of information in images, from left to right: The development of Land Use plans as envisioned by the CARPE philosophy. Satellite Remote Sensing maps and participatory mapping are fused using GIS , and models, to arrive at a consensual land use map that satisfies the local community, development and conservation objectives. Land Use Planning and Participatory Zoning in the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba Landscape on the Macro and Micro Levels African Wildlife Foundation Why do we need Land Use Planning in the MLW landscape? 1. Maintain a network of protected areas and corridors for continued species viability 2. Provide enough land for future land use conversion to satisfy the agricultural livelihood needs of local communities; 3. Conserve enough forested land to maintain biodiversity and sustainable community harvest of non‐timber forest products (NTFP) 4. Maintain a landscape which provides sustainable livelihoods for the local people and important ecosystem services such as clean water and carbon sequestration. SOIL site Land Use Planning Process 1. Use satellite derived land cover maps and GIS to map current land use. 2. Geospatial modeling of high priority conservation areas and areas of high human presence. 4. Engagement with local community to describe and prioritize activities in permanent and non-permanent forest areas according to livelihood and conservation needs. 5. Participatory mapping to delineate agricultural boundaries and micro‐zones according to livelihood. 6. Community adoption of local land use planning map Janet Nackoney, AWF MLW Project

  7. Activities on the ground: participating in field work and training staff employed on field work activities. • - Validation of remote sensing based maps • Participatory mapping, data collection with GPS and household surveys • REDD related, carbon/biomass field data collection • GIS, Remote Sensing, GIS and field data collection techniques training of field teams Bas congo fieldwork pictures Bas congo fieldwork pictures Bas congo fieldwork pictures

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